Soonie A. Kim

On the Possibility of the Forms’ Existence and the Impossibility of Knowing Them

This paper examines the structural dilemmas inherent in the theory of Forms, focusing on the “unrecognizability of Ideas” argument in Part 1 of Plato’s Parmenides. Parmenides argues that establishing the world of Forms as completely independent from the world of individual things inevitably creates mutual non-relatedne...